An Honest Liar

An Honest Liar (2014) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Tyler Measom and Justin Weinstein. It follows James "The Amazing" Randi — stage magician, escape artist, and lifelong opponent of psychics, faith healers, and anyone who monetized false belief.

Randi fought deception with deception. He planted fake psychics inside academic parapsychology labs, built fictional identities from the ground up, and turned his partner of 25 years, Jose Alvarez, into a sham guru named Carlos — all to show how easily institutions could be fooled. Uri Geller appears in the film and responds to the accusations; Penn Jillette, Adam Savage, and Bill Nye offer wider context. At 81, Randi came out publicly as gay. That revelation reframes the documentary's whole argument about a man whose life's work was controlling what others were allowed to see. Stream An Honest Liar (2014) online on iFILM.